The monthly Science workshop with John Maas
The workshop went on for two hours and in a way continued after John was gone, too, as Simon is in love with his new 4V battery.
Category: Physics
All About Energy
Simon has been studying energy units such as C (coulombs), V (volts) and J (joules), and the relation between them. This is one of the best video tutorials he found … Continue reading All About Energy
Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon was trying to program his Arduino board to use a magnetic switch to turn an LED on and off, but the code didn’t work. The LED was burning no … Continue reading Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon’s new multimeter
Simon had been dreaming of owning a multimeter and learning more about measuring resistance, voltage and current. He has spent hours playing with his new multimeter since he got it … Continue reading Simon’s new multimeter
Physics with SparkFun
Simon has discovered yet another awesome resource: SparkFun, comprising a variety of projects electronics and coding based on Arduino, Intel Edison, Raspberry Pi and more. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials In this video Simon explains … Continue reading Physics with SparkFun
Disco!
It’s been a great weekend with our Amsterdam friends. We visited two households and at both Simon was given workshops by advanced users of synth software and hardware. He was … Continue reading Disco!
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During math class Friday, calculating the resistance in Ohms.
RGB calculation
Simon made this chart tonight to be able to program an LED to change colours. He says he calculated all the values himself, the 255 bits being the max. Together … Continue reading RGB calculation
Studying anywhere
Yesterday morning at Park Spoor Noord: Neva dancing and Simon reading up on c++ programming. Today the reading topic changed to energy. He found the nuclear reactor page the most … Continue reading Studying anywhere
The shapes of soundwaves
This afternoon Simon gave me an introductory lesson to soundwave shapes: triangular, saw tooth, ramp, pulse 0 to 100% duty cycle. It turned out he can imitate all of them … Continue reading The shapes of soundwaves
LittleBits meet Ableton Live
It’s always tough to learn to handle new software, especially if the interface we got didn’t really match the instructions in the YouTube video tutorials, but Simon didn’t give up … Continue reading LittleBits meet Ableton Live
Geeks out of the box 